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On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

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Jane Wong: “My father wrote half of me into being, I suppose. My mother wrote the other half.”

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Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

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Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

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How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

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Alicia D. Williams on the Many Written and Oral Forms a Story Can Take

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When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

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